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When he talked his eyes went away from mine and then he forced himself to look straight at me and he began to explain and I knew that he felt very strange with me and that he hated me, and it was funny sitting there and talking like that, knowing he hated me.

Jean Rhys

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Jean Rhys
Age: 88 †
Born: 1890
Born: August 24
Died: 1979
Died: May 14
Novelist
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Ella Gwendolen Rees Williams
Ella Rees Williams
Felt
Strange
Forced
Away
Went
Hated
Look
Knew
Explain
Looks
Eyes
Began
Like
Knowing
Straight
Talking
Mines
Eye
Mine
Funny
Sitting
Talked

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